Wednesday, 24 April 2024 — The Electronic Intifada
The Electronic Intifada is hosting a livestream today.
1800 Palestine time / 1900 Amman time / 1600 GMT / 1700 UK / 1800 CET / 11 am CT / 12 pm ET / 9 am PT
Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza has now passed 200 days, with no end in sight. Despite suffering and horror beyond description, the resistance on the ground remains determined and strong – denying Israel any strategic achievement.
We’ll start today’s program with a special update from Gaza, and a news brief from Nora Barrows-Friedman.
Meanwhile, there is no let up in global solidarity and protest against government and institutional complicity with Israel’s crimes.
Right now, across the United States, students and faculty are facing repression and reprisals, while Congress smears, investigates and threatens them for speaking out and standing up against the genocide.
At New York University, police arrested more than 130 students and faculty late Monday night, in an attack on campus peace protesters reminiscent of the era of the American war on Vietnam.
Also on Monday, Harvard University ordered members of the campus Palestine Solidarity Committee to “cease all organizational activities for the remainder of the Spring 2024 term,” or risk permanent expulsion.
We’ll go live to the protest encampment at Columbia University in New York, which in the last few hours administrators have threatened with another NYPD police raid and even the National Guard, as Minouche Shafik, the university’s president, presses on with her violent crackdown.
Shafik called the police on her students last week after suspending many of them and expelling them from their housing, prompting the university’s senate to take up a resolution of censure against her that may come to a vote on Wednesday.
We will also be joined by Mohamed Abdou, a visiting professor at Columbia who is one of three faculty members attacked and smeared during congressional testimony by Shafik last week.
During the testimony, Shafik engaged in a harsh and bitter attack on Abdou, joining hardline pro-Israel lawmakers in distorting his words and vowing that he would never teach at Columbia again.
In our second hour, Jon Elmer will guide us through the latest videos from the resistance in Gaza and the West Bank as well as a series of operations from southern Lebanon by Hizballah.
Join Nora, Jon, Tamara Nassar, Asa Winstanley and Ali Abunimah for all this and much more.
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